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Peter Mardahl

Dr. Mardahl is a research physicist for the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate. He is a primary developer of the Improved Concurrent Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell (ICEPIC) model, a microwave system design tool which has been used to aid in the design of the Active Denial System (ADS) as well as airborne counter electronic HPM sources. In addition, ICEPIC has been applied to RF sources for Terahertz radiation for chem/bio detection and RF defeat of improvised explosive devices, as well as a multitude of physics research activities such as Langmuir probes for supersonic plasma diagnostics, laser plasma interaction for DOE fusion concepts, atmospheric plasma breakdown, and electric propulsion (Hall-effect and Helicon thruster). Currently, Dr. Mardahl is working on various applications of the ICEPIC code as well as highly scalable computing (to tens of thousands of processors).